Iolaus apatosa

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Theclinae
Tribus: Iolaini
Genus: Iolaus
Subgenus: Iolaus (Epamera)
Species: Iolaus apatosa

Name

Iolaus apatosa Stempffer, 1952.

Type locality: Kenya: “Chalani, 600 pieds, ca. 15 miles au Nord de Rabai”.

Holotype: ♀ OUM, images.

Synonymy

• Epamera aemulus apatosa Stempffer, 1952: 116.
• Iolaus (Epamera) aemulus apatosa (♀-form) Talbot, 1935: 117; Stempffer, 1967: 144. Kenya: “Chalani, near Mombasa, ca. 600 ft., ca. 15 miles north of Rabai”.
• Iolaus apatosa (Stempffer); Congdon & Collins, 1998: 88.
• Iolaus (Epamera) apatosa (Stempffer); Williams, 2007: Iolaina 14.

References

• Congdon, C. & Collins, S. 1998. Kielland’s butterflies of Tanzania. Supplement. African Butterfly Research Institute & Union des Entomologistes Belges, Nairobi & Tervuren, 143 pp. Reference page. 
• Stempffer, H., 1952. Contribution a l’etude des Lycaenidae [Lep.] de la faune ethiopienne. Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France 57: 114-121. Reference page. 
• Stempffer, H. 1967. The genera of the African Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology. Supplement 10: 322pp, 1pl. BHL Reference page. 
• Talbot, G. 1935. New species and forms of African Lycaenidae (Lep.: Rhop.) [and supplement]. Entomologist's monthly magazine 71: 69-78, 115-127, 147-153; ill.; Suppl.: 202-209; ill. buy. Reference page. 
• Williams, M.C. 2007. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.